Barker, Howard
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Barker, Howard (1946– ), English playwright, one of the most important of a group whose plays deal with major contemporary issues, usually from a socialist point of view. His first play
Cheek (1970) was followed by such plays as
Alpha Alpha (1972), about twin gangsters,
Claw (1975; NY, 1976), about a pimp, and
Stripwell (also 1975), in which Michael
Hordern played a judge whose house is invaded by a criminal he has sentenced.
That Good between Us (1977) is set in a totalitarian Britain of the future; in
The Hang of the Gaol (1978) a prison governor becomes an arsonist; and the background of
The Love of a Good Man (1980) is a First World War battlefield in 1920. Barker is a prolific dramatist of great passion, whose complex and often confusing plays convey great moral outrage which occasions both his outlandish plots and his frequently excellent dialogue. His work in the 1980s included
No End of Blame (London and NY, 1981), portraying the pressures on a Hungarian cartoonist before and after his emigration to England;
Victory (1983) and
The Castle (1985), both using historical settings for allegorical purposes. The year 1988 saw the production of
The Possibilities, 10 short plays;
The Last Supper, a ‘speculation on the life of Christ’, with music; and his most demanding play, the 4½-hour
The Bite of the Night. Barker's adaptation of
Middleton's Women Beware Women was seen in 1986 (NY, 1987). Most of his plays have been presented either at the
Royal Court or by the
RSC.
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